> On 21 Apr 2026, at 17:31, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm going to use Devuan for Sylvia's computer. Life's too short to go
> distro-hopping yet again. Devuan's a good distro and it's got a great
> community.
>
> I might use LXDE, LXQt (even though it has KDE dependencies) or XFCE
> (even though it has two real estate wasting panels). Or I might just
> use plain old Openbox.
>
> If plain old Openbox sounds surprsing, when Sylvia first started using
> Win9x, I set her up with a special menu program I had made for one of
> my clients. She's talked about it ever since. In 1999 I created UMENU
> (now UMENU2), which is pretty much a clone of the menu I gave her in
> Win9x. So all her usual tasks will be a couple keystrokes away.
>
> I'll also set her up with either a dmenu program launcher, or the
> equivalent launcher using fzf. With those installed, a start menu won't
> matter than much, and if worst comes to worst I can install any old
> panel on Openbox so she can see volume, RAM etc.
>
> Thanks for all your help, and I'll be occasionally seeking guidance
> when I start using APT after eleven years of exclusively using XBPS.
>
> Thanks!
>
> SteveT

You might consider looking at rofi as a drop-in alternative to dmenu.

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

It can launch from both PATH and .desktop files, and also provides a nice ssh launcher.

--
Tom